Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming advantage of concentrating in a small department, students say, is personal attention. Gee has found faculty members in the Statistics Department "really attentive to undergraduate needs and concerns. You definitely get more attention." Kimberly J. Brown '86, another of the five Statistics concentrators, agrees that she has "easier access to professors" than students in larger departments. "I've gotten to know all the professors in my classes on a personal level," says Case. "You're not intimidated by them. You get to ask questions...
...blowing donnybrook about a year ago by advising supervisors not to place $100 million in district funds with a shaky New Jersey securities firm. When the company collapsed, Frost embarrassed Mayor Marion Barry's administration with an "I told you so" city council appearance. Earlier this month someone gained access to Frost's computer data, extracted a letter he had written to Barry charging the city's top financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed his new password. Insisting that was impossible...
...Agriculture. Worldwatch, founded ten years ago with the help of the Rockefeller brothers, predicted the current African famines. Brown and his dozen diligent helpers claim no special powers, only a willingness to mine other people's statistics. Worldwatch is plugged into 70 research institutes around the globe and has access to computer data from the United Nations, World Bank and the U.S. Government...
Kelly originally gained access to the booth through a friend who works as a disc jockey at the club. Raised above the floor and surrounded by mirrors on two sides, the booth helps create the nightclub's latest theme, the psychedelic sixties. With Kelly and her dancing partner, an MIT student, the picture is complete...
...organized by Byerly Hall. All the participants in the program were given extended meal tickets, as well as special passes so that they could use Harvard's facilities for the three days they were here. "In the afternoon, I went down to Blodgett Pool and swam laps. I have access to a pool at home, and I expect to continue to swim laps at Harvard," Miller says. "I also swim on the school team, but I don't think I'll try out for it at Harvard...